Vendetta! (Annotated)

Marie Corelli

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This edition includes the following editor's introduction: Marie Corelli, the flamboyant, irreverent and iconoclastic best-selling writer of the Victorian era


First published in 1886, "Vendetta!” (AKA Vendetta!, or The Story Of One Forgotten) is a romance by English novelist Marie Corelli. "Vendetta!” is Corelli's second novel and was an immediate popular success.

"Vendetta!” narrates the story of an Italian count who, after being mistakenly declared dead, returns home to find his wife romantically involved with his best friend and seeks revenge on them both.

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